Satyagraha
Americannoun
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(in India) the policy of passive resistance inaugurated by Mohandas Gandhi in 1919 as a method of gaining political and social reforms.
noun
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the policy of nonviolent resistance adopted by Mahatma Gandhi from about 1919 to oppose British rule in India
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any movement of nonviolent resistance
Etymology
Origin of Satyagraha
1915–20; < Hindi, equivalent to Sanskrit satya truth + āgraha strong attachment, persistence
Example Sentences
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It was on a ministry mission to India in the ’50s that Lawson learned about Satyagraha, the method of resistance through nonviolence, developed by Mahatma Gandhi.
From Slate • Dec. 22, 2020
Satyagraha LA Opera stages this Philip Glass opera about Gandhi’s years as a young attorney in South Africa.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 2, 2018
Satyagraha, literally translated as “holding fast to truth,” obliged protesters to “always keep an open mind and be ever ready to find that what we believed to be truth was, after all, untruth.”
From The New Yorker • Oct. 15, 2018
When all the elements and the singers are balanced, like in the superb Carsen Onegin, or the recent Satyagraha, we are in for true magic.
From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2017
A person who believes in Satyagraha will not fight physically, but instead resists through his or her own inner courage, knowing he might be jailed or beaten.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
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